Topic: WAXY BUILDUP (Read 4076 times)

TCB · « **Reply #121 on:** August 10, 2015, 09:56:19 PM »

Hopefully not another page of TCB

TCB · « **Reply #122 on:** August 10, 2015, 09:57:01 PM »

I have always been confused about friendship.

TCB · « **Reply #123 on:** August 10, 2015, 09:58:32 PM »

I just assumed that if they were my best (read: only) friend

John G. · « **Reply #124 on:** August 10, 2015, 09:58:36 PM »

I understand your not being able to make friends easily, TCB. I didn't really have any myself when I was a kid. That seemed to come when I got to college.

TCB · « **Reply #125 on:** August 10, 2015, 09:59:08 PM »

Then I was automatically their best friend.

TCB · « **Reply #126 on:** August 10, 2015, 10:00:11 PM »

Quote from: John G. on August 10, 2015, 09:58:36 PM

I understand your not being able to make friends easily, TCB. I didn't really have any myself when I was a kid. That seemed to come when I got to college.

I definitely am better at it now, but only slightly.

John G. · « **Reply #127 on:** August 10, 2015, 10:00:15 PM »

I think that was one of the reasons I didn't like camp, though since it was a day camp, I could go home at night.

TCB · « **Reply #128 on:** August 10, 2015, 10:01:41 PM »

But I only recently learned the lesson of best friendship.

TCB · « **Reply #129 on:** August 10, 2015, 10:03:14 PM »

I do better with friends on the internet.

TCB · « **Reply #130 on:** August 10, 2015, 10:03:49 PM »

Maybe it is preferable not to meet me in person!

TCB · « **Reply #131 on:** August 10, 2015, 10:05:18 PM »

I will have to remember that when I meet someone online.

TCB · « **Reply #132 on:** August 10, 2015, 10:06:09 PM »

Don't let anybody meet me!

John G. · « **Reply #133 on:** August 10, 2015, 10:06:15 PM »

Quote from: TCB on August 10, 2015, 10:00:11 PM

Quote from: John G. on August 10, 2015, 09:58:36 PM
I understand your not being able to make friends easily, TCB. I didn't really have any myself when I was a kid. That seemed to come when I got to college.

I definitely am better at it now, but only slightly.

I am, too. And perhaps I'm better at it online as well.

TCB · « **Reply #134 on:** August 10, 2015, 10:07:24 PM »

Most of my friends are theater friends.

John G. · « **Reply #135 on:** August 10, 2015, 10:07:31 PM »

Watching a movie called Mao's Last Dancer. Based on a true story. Enjoying the dancing. The rest seems a little too black and white.

TCB · « **Reply #136 on:** August 10, 2015, 10:09:12 PM »

Quote from: John G. on August 10, 2015, 10:06:15 PM

Quote from: TCB on August 10, 2015, 10:00:11 PM
Quote from: John G. on August 10, 2015, 09:58:36 PM
I understand your not being able to make friends easily, TCB. I didn't really have any myself when I was a kid. That seemed to come when I got to college.

I definitely am better at it now, but only slightly.

I am, too. And perhaps I'm better at it online as well.

That is why you and I are now "best" friends, John!

TCB · « **Reply #137 on:** August 10, 2015, 10:10:01 PM »

Quote from: John G. on August 10, 2015, 10:07:31 PM

Watching a movie called Mao's Last Dancer. Based on a true story. Enjoying the dancing. The rest seems a little too black and white.

Is this a film from China?

TCB · « **Reply #138 on:** August 10, 2015, 10:16:13 PM »

Oh, oh. I have scared away my best friend!

TCB · « **Reply #139 on:** August 10, 2015, 10:18:18 PM »

Pill popping time!

TCB · « **Reply #140 on:** August 10, 2015, 10:19:17 PM »

G'night!

John G. · « **Reply #141 on:** August 10, 2015, 10:21:28 PM »

Quote from: TCB on August 10, 2015, 10:10:01 PM

Quote from: John G. on August 10, 2015, 10:07:31 PM
Watching a movie called Mao's Last Dancer. Based on a true story. Enjoying the dancing. The rest seems a little too black and white.

Is this a film from China?

It's from Bruce Beresford, who made Driving Miss Daisy and some other good movies. But this one is just a little too pat. Still it works as a feel-good film.

John G. · « **Reply #142 on:** August 10, 2015, 10:25:50 PM »

You don't need slow motion or fancy film techniques to capture ballet on film. Too bad that was done here.

John G. · « **Reply #143 on:** August 10, 2015, 10:26:08 PM »

Off to bed. G'night, all.

George · « **Reply #144 on:** August 10, 2015, 11:07:36 PM »

Quote from: TCB on August 10, 2015, 10:07:24 PM

Most of my friends are theater friends.

Most of mine are, too. My friend Margo is my best friend, although I am only one of her best friends. She and her friends Marsha and Laurie have known each other for more than 30 years, and I've only known Margo for probably around 20 years (we met working in the same building at the library).

George · « **Reply #145 on:** August 10, 2015, 11:08:02 PM »

I have some good friends, but not otherwise very close friends...but that's okay.

George · « **Reply #146 on:** August 10, 2015, 11:22:03 PM »

As for the Topic of the Day:

I've only once gone to a summer camp, and I did NOT have a good experience. I don't remember exactly when it was (or very much about the experience, itself), but it was when we lived in Ft. Carson, Colorado, so I was between the ages of seven and ten.

George · « **Reply #147 on:** August 10, 2015, 11:24:29 PM »

It was a weekend camp in a nearby town and we had to get from the kid-drop-off point to where we were staying on horseback. Neither my sister nor I had ever ridden a horse. I have no idea if any of the other kids had any horse-riding experience. I was kind of scared. I was able to get on the horse, but on the way to the camp site, we went under some trees with low branches and I fell off. I don't remember the adults who were in control being very sympathetic to my plight.

George · « **Reply #148 on:** August 10, 2015, 11:26:53 PM »

Anyway, the only other events that I can remember are:

1) When we got to where we were staying, my horse went directly into a little pond to get some water (like all the other horses) and I couldn't get it out of the pond so that I could get off the horse without getting wet. I eventually just jumped off. I fell into the water, got wet, and the horse stepped on my wrist!

I don't remember the adults being too sympathetic about this, either, telling me to "quit your bawlin'."

George · « **Reply #149 on:** August 10, 2015, 11:27:53 PM »

2) Another memory is that we all slept in one big room on a wooden floor in our sleeping bags. I have no memory of individual rooms, at all.

3) When it was time to leave, my sister and I got to ride the jeep back. I think a couple of kids had to ride the jeep out there because there might not have been enough horses for all us kids, but I could've just made that part up. But I do remember riding the jeep back.

And that's pretty much it. I have no idea what we did the entire weekend other than these snippets of my memory.

Weird, huh?

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